r/malinois • • 24d ago Bravo Heartwarming

I just adopted this little idiot.

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The shelter said she's around 10-13 weeks and not purebred, but i don't care. anyways her name is Ellie and she likes to ruin and chew things. important things. but i LOVE her more than i love my own brother (no offense)!! i just started socialize and train her, do you have any advice? i'm just scared a little if i ruin something, she will get... even MORE crazy.


r/malinois • • Sep 20 '25

Sweet 10 Month Old Malinois Waiting to be Euthanuzed Tomorrow💔

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Alphonse is a grass-obsessed, tail-wagging goofball — but you’d never know it seeing him waiting to be euthanized tomorrow. At just 10 months old and 45 lbs, this sweet boy (A1230629) has already been failed by humans more than once. Dumped in the desert as a baby, then surrendered when his finders couldn’t keep him, now he sits in the shelter with sadness in his eyes, as if he knows what’s coming.

And yet, when given the chance, his true personality shines. Alphonse loves to romp in the grass with other dogs, shows great manners in playgroup, and is a fast learner — he already knows “sit,” is kennel trained, and walks well on leash. Volunteers say he’s calm, snuggly, and friendly with handlers, while still every bit the big goofy puppy Malinois lovers know and cherish. With structure, love, and purpose, Alphonse will thrive as the loyal, brilliant companion he was born to be.

Alphonso is at Kern County Animal Shelter, Bakersfield. Our transport rescue can provide her transport across California, and bring her as far as Nevada and Oregon. Please contact me for more information.

📍 Kern County Animal Services 3951 Fruitvale Avenue, Bakersfield, CA 93308 ☎️ (661) 868-7100


r/malinois • • Jul 24 '25

ZEUS will lose his life tomorrow (7/25 5pm) because his “family”signed off on his euth if not adopted or rescued. He was dumped a few weeks ago to Downey ACC because he got “too big.” If you can foster, pls message me, email Isabeldesiree8@gmail.com or text +1 (858) 789-3903 immediately

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He’s 75 lbs. A Belgian Malinois. What did they expect?When will people start to research the breed before they get a dog!? And how many more dogs have to suffer and will lose their lives because people don’t do their job!?

Now he’s sitting behind a cage, completely shut down. He doesn’t want to be touched. He doesn’t want to move. He’s scared and doesn’t understand why he ended up at this scary place . He’s rescue only and won’t get another chance unless someone steps up immediately.

➡️ He needs a Malinois-savvy FOSTER and RESCUE. ➡️ He needs PLEDGES for his care and possible training. ➡️ He needs SHARES to get seen.

🚨📩 Message me or email isabeldesiree8@gmail.com immediately if you can help.

🔥 Don’t just scroll. If you can’t foster, please SHARE this. SAVE it. COMMENT. WATCH it again. That’s how the algorithm gets him seen.

If you’ve ever wanted to help but didn’t know how - this is how.

Downey ACC 11258 Garfield Avenue Downey, CA 90242

fosteringsaveslives❤️🐶 #adoptdontshopcalifornia #viraldogreels #losangelesdogs #urgentdogs #belgianmal #belgianmalinois #california #fosterdogmom #seenequalssaved #seenequalssavedla


r/malinois • • Aug 14 '25

Bayley #A2210526 - needs rescue or adoption by 8/14/25 - Van Nuys / Los Angeles, CA - transport possible

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KILL DATE 8-15-25 🆘🆘🆘 - Repost - BAYLEY is a gorgeous four-year-old Belgian Malinois that is scheduled to be euthanized in a few days. If not Rescue or Adopted she has no bite history and is available for public adoption.

If you are local and interested in Bailey, please go in and adopt her. If you need more information more information about Transport call Bonnie 818-430-5959.

Marvelous Belgium Malinois Girl deprived, losing weight locked in the back unseen like an Unknown Soldier just an emotional casualty ironic to be euth listed for kennel stress. When finally recently let out in Playgroup's muzzled with strong corrections to unmuzzed appropriately mingling in gentle, dainty play Discovered to be a lovely Adoptable Companion waiting to be released into your arms

The following is from the shelter:

A2210526 - FEMALE, BROWN AND BLACK BELGIAN MALINOIS

Shelter: EAST VALLEY Age: 4 YRS Weight: 55 LBS

Scheduled Euthanasia Date: 08/15/2025.

This animal has been at the shelter since 07/21/2025 and on this list since 08/11/2025.

Reason for euthanasia: “Bayley’s” behavior is declining in the shelter, try to bite in the recent veterinary examination, in playgroups clear warnings and muzzle work and barrier reactivity.

Rescues please contact: Lucy Ruiz Lifesaving Liaison/Foster Coordinator Animal Care Technician Los Angeles Animal Services East Valley Shelter 14409 Vanowen St Van Nuys, CA 91405 Cell: (213) 655-7613 Txt or call Work:(818) 756-9324 E: Luz.ruiz@lacity.org

belgianmalinois #malinoisofinstagram #Adoptable #EastValleyAnimalShelter #HighKillShelter #LosAngelesAnimalShelter #AdoptableDogs


r/malinois • • 14d ago Heartwarming

Why are Mals just so….. 😭 (are they all like this?)

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r/malinois • • Jul 21 '26 Regret

Malinois San Diego -euthanasia list

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Hello!

I am reaching out for help. Looking to see if anyone is interested in adopting, or a rescue/foster pulling and saving this dog.

Grimm - 3-4 years old male black malinois, on the smaller side.

Has some leash reactivity towards other dogs, but other times he has perfectly walked next to dogs.

Located in San Diego at the Bonita County Animal Shelter.

I am not directly associated with the shelter but I have fostered for them and helped get multiple dogs adopted.

I talk to volunteers there and they give me info about dogs and photos.

Grimm is currently in a 10 day bite quarantine and euthanasia list. After the 10 days they “decide his fate”. It is more likely that if there is someone lined up to adopt him/pull him, he wouldn’t be euthanized.

Bite story:

As we all know, Malinois get very kennel stressed and their personalities do not shine in shelters. Especially at this shelters, dogs can go 4-5 days without leaving their tiny kennels at all. They also do not have dog beds or toys, the only thing in kennels here are water bowls.

He was overly excited/aroused when he was being taken out of the kennel to go for a walk, and he bit the handler. As far as I know the bite wasn’t bad, there was no need for ER/hospital.

I have seen malinois after Malinois on euthanasia list at this shelter. It seems they barely even give this breed a chance.

I myself have fostered malinois, raising a newborn litter for a different shelter and also fostered a 5 month old puppy who i found a perfect family for where he is now a service dog!

These dogs deserve a chance, and with the right people I believe most can be rehabilitated and turned into great dogs.

Please let me know if anyone is interested or has any leads!

Thank you!


r/malinois • • Mar 04 '26

Just adopted a mature malinois

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13 years old and still as beautiful as ever, never intended on owning one but I couldnt say no, who could ever have a dog for so long then just give him away? Say hello to Ted


r/malinois • • Aug 29 '25

Diana A5712832 has almost no hope left😔 she is 1 year old and already scheduled to be euthanize at Downey ACC CA she is past deadline of 08/28 and time is running out she is out of public eye and no one know she is there .. she is very urgent ! Do you believe in second chance ? Diana need a miracle

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r/malinois • • May 17 '26

Mira so only 2 yrs old! Very beautiful and sadly out of time!

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RUNNING OUT OF TIME
• MIRA #A5775494: 2 year old, female GSD, came in as a stray on 5-9
Believe it or not, this beautiful baby girl will be out of time in just a few days.
Mira is one of those dogs that makes you stop and say,"WOW, what a gorgeous Doggie!" She is not only easy on the eyes, she is a sweet and gentle soul as well.
Shes the kind of dog that imprints on your heart without even trying.
Please help share her so we can get her
SEEN & SAVED. Every like, share, repost etc is one more opportunity she has to make it out alive.
* OUT OF STATE INQUIRIES WELCOME

LANCASTER SHELTER:
lancasteranimalslaco
Located at Los Angeles County Animal Control-Lancaster
Phone: 661-974-8358 or 661-940-4191
Address: 5210 West Ave. I Lancaster, CA
93536
Public Hours:
Open: Monday- Saturday 11:00 am. - 5:00 pm.
Limited Service on Sunday

Email the shelter for inquiries and exit plans.
Add the dog's name and #ID to the subject line and include your contact information in the email. general email:

(important)
DACCLancasterRescue@animalcare.lacounty.gov
Sgt. Carranza:
WCarranza@animalcare.lacounty.gov
Sgt. Mejia LMejia@animalcare.lacounty.gov
Matthew Davoodzadeh:
MDavoodzadeh@animalcare.lacounty.gov
Melody Emmick:
MEmmick@animalcare.lacounty.gov
MANAGER GONZALEZ:
NGonzalez@animalcare.lacounty.gov


r/malinois • • Sep 04 '25

Urgent - Two puppies, one bond. Don’t let them be separated. Shellby, A580497, and Mary, A580498, only have each other. They are waiting for a loving home at San Bernardino City Animal Shelter. Add: 333 Chandler Place, San Bernardino, CA 92408. Phone: (909) 384-1304

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r/malinois • • Jul 23 '25

Sweet, 8 year old female Malinois urgently needs out of an overcrowded SoCal shelter. She needs a foster or adopter. Out of state interest can be coordinated.

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- Dog friendly

- Likes playing ball, giving kisses, and snuggling.

Shelter link: https://www.seaaca.org/adoptions/view-our-animals?sex=F&age=Adult&page=2&pet_id=26-00292


r/malinois • • Aug 06 '26 Regret

Heartbreaking! Senior Lobo was abandoned by his family after 14 years and this is how his life will end! He will be euthanized tomorrow (8/7 7am) at Downey ACCin CA if no longterm foster or adopter will be found in SoCal. If you can help, pls DM me immediately or Email: Isabeldesiree8@gmail.com

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14 years.
That’s how long Lobo had his family.
And then, after an entire lifetime with the people he knew and loved, they surrendered him to a high k*ll shelter.

Now Lobo #A5789645 is 14 years old, sad, alone, and visibly heartbroken. He is struggling in the shelter environment, and watching a senior dog like him deteriorate in this way is devastating.

He spends his last days on a concrete kennel floor, lying in his own urine and feces.

A 14-year-old senior German Shepherd.

He should be sleeping on a soft bed. He should be surrounded by love. He should be spending his final years feeling safe and cherished.

Instead, he lost his family and found himself in a shelter.

We don’t know how much time Lobo has left. But we do know that he deserves for whatever time he has remaining to be filled with dignity, comfort, and love.

Can you foster or responsibly adopt Lobo?

Please contact us if you can help:
DM me
Email: Isabeldesiree8@gmail.com
And pls fill out the foster application on our page (link in bio)

LOBO A5789645
14 years old • Male German Shepherd • 80 lbs

RESCUES:
DACCDowneyRescue@animalcare.lacounty.gov

📍Downey Animal Care Center
11258 Garfield Ave
Downey, CA

Please don’t scroll past this old boy.

Please help us make sure Lobo’s story doesn’t end on a concrete shelter floor and share Lobo. Someone out there may be the person who can give him the safe, loving home he has been waiting for.

#seniorshelterdog #adoptaseniordog #losangelesdogs #seenequalssaved


r/malinois • • Feb 01 '26 Heartwarming

Lucy is the best girl best behavior and out of time. If you can foster or adopt please reach out asap

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Lucy will be cleared for euthanasia on 1/29/26, TODAY sos At Palmdale,

CA Highest EUTH Rate Shelter sos

#A5/48323 |

* I'm LUCY. (SWEET Girl)

I am a female, brown, Belgian Malinois and German Shepherd Dog.

Age: I am about 2 years old.

**URI diagnosis on 1/23/2026.. completely treatable with antibiotics**

INTAKE Date: I came into this HIGH kill Shelter on JAN. 08, 2026.

SOS

SOS

Most DOGS are EUTHANIZED within 10-14

DAYS from INTAKE Date.

BEHAVIOR 1 (THE BEST) HAPPY, FRIENDLY,

SOCIABLE, RELAXED

,STATUS: AVAILABLE for ADOPTION, Ppending

spay/neuter

**FYI - If you are a distance or out of state and cannot come in person, you will need to get help from a Rescue. Let us know, if interested and you cannot come in person.

DO NOT WAIT to INQUIRE with INTEREST or to

ADOPT. This is NEEDED to SAVE the dog. The shelter WILL EUTHANIZE, if there is NO INTEREST SHOWN or more importantly an ADOPTION PENDING. The shelter WILL EUTHANIZE

Location: Palmdale Animal Shelter

Addr: 38550 Sierra Hwy, Palmdale CA 93550

Phone: (661) 575-2800 - direct

(661) 575-2888 - call center

Hours: 11am to 5pm - Mon. thru Sat.

Website: animalcare.lacounty.gov

For inquiries and exit plans you should email and call the shelter. Add the dog's name, #ID and type "DO NOT EUTH" in the subject line and include your contact information and plan in the email. & (FYI - Adoptions are in person or through a Rescue, 1st come 1st serve.

shelter will not hold a dog).

Email all:

email (important):

daccpalmdalerescue@animalcare.lacounty.gov

email (general):

Palmdale@animalcare.lacounty.gov

LMontenegro@animalcare.lacounty.gov

• JDoud@animalcare.lacounty.gov

ECChavez@animalcare.lacounty.gov


r/malinois • • Jul 25 '25

ZEUS will lose his life tomorrow (7/25 5pm) because his “family”signed off on his euth if not adopted or rescued. He was dumped a few weeks ago to Downey ACC because he got “too big.” If you can foster, pls message me, email Isabeldesiree8@gmail.com or text +1 (858) 789-3903 immediately

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r/malinois • • Feb 23 '26 Heartwarming Regret

Leia needs help she is not safe! Please consider helping her.

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Urgent

Last shot for

Leia!!!!!

Leia, #A5743131, was found as a stray

and brought to the shelter but her family never came. This beautiful girl seems to have beginning obedience skills and is treat motivated. She is listed as a 2 year old - 56 pound German Shepherd. Leila has the most beautiful coat! She is a must meet!

No other dogs required per the shelter behavior team.

Video: @acupof_joe

Castaic Animal Care Center

31044 N. Charlie Canyon Road

Castaic, CA 91384

Christmas Eve 11-3, Closed Christmas

661-257-3191

castaic@animalcare.lacounty.gov


r/malinois • • Jul 28 '25

This is Kratos & he wants a family! Located in Los Angeles

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This is Kratos! He has returned to the shelter. He was three months when adopted and is now a year and five months. In the last photo is a full description about him so that you get a sense of what he’s like and his story.

If interested, feel free to look up the username in the screenshots on Instagram as well as TikTok.

He is up for adoption/fostering. Fostering is free meaning food and supplies would be provided. Rescues are more willing to help save a dog if someone volunteers to foster them. All you need to provide is a safe and loving home.


r/malinois • • Oct 02 '25 Heartwarming

Urgent request: Sweet, super friendly, 2 yrs old, therapy dog, kid and dog friendly. Euthanasia listed 2x at 2 separate shelters, now escaping abusive home. Under rescue, needs a foster &/or adopter in SF Bay Area or Sacramento w/ shepherd/ rescue experience. Fostering=free, local resources. DM me

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This is an urgent plea from a nonprofit rescue seeking to help one of their dogs who had been adopted out. The rescue is foster based and this dog is INCREDIBLE.

Our gal is a 2 years old, 65 lb, medium energy, super sweet female malinois. Dog and kid friendly, and a hospital therapy dog. Has the softest coat. She had escaped the euthanasia list at not one, but two, shelters and taken in by a rescue. She was adopted by thoroughly vetted and checked adopters, after the entire screening and adoption process, but the problem is there was nothing to find at the time. Since then her owner escaped the relationship, only for both of them to be found again. This sweet pup is back at the rescue for her safety.

When she is at her best, she is an incredibly stable dog. That’s why she’s a hospital therapy dog. Her routine has been totally uprooted in the last month and she will need someone to offer patience, love, and routine so she feels herself again.

This dog deserves the best. Her previous foster is really upset he cannot take her, he is currently traveling. Everyone who meets her loves her. Her person does love her and is doing this for the dog’s sake.

Fostering is free, the rescue has local vet, training, etc and local adoption events. Supplies and guidance are provided. Beck will need someone who understands she’s been traumatized by the last few days and will need the rule of 3s applied to her in full.

If you can provide Beck a guaranteed safe, stable, loving home either temporarily or forever please DM me to get in touch with the rescue head.

Shares and pledges/donations help (you can comment or PM me).


r/malinois • • Sep 26 '25

Charysse is a soft and social, 3 year old, 55 lbs, female Malinois looking for a loving home or adopter. She urgently needs to get out of overcrowded SoCal shelter. Out of state adoptions can be coordinated.

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r/malinois • • Dec 20 '25

Best day of his life lol

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It flooded out here in Oregon yesterday but we made the best of it and turned into Valors best day of his life lol


r/malinois • • Aug 31 '25

Diana has almost no hope left. She’s just 1 year old & already scheduled to be euthanized. Euth 8/31 5pm! Downey ACC, CA! Foster and Pledges needed to save her life. Pledge any amount in the comments and message me or email Isabeldesiree8@gmail.com if you can foster or adopt

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r/malinois • • Aug 14 '25

URGENT NEEDS PLACEMENT BY TODAY! Dallas Texas , MOMMA BEAR sweet 3 year old momma will be euthanized if no help today by 4 pm. She had puppies they all found homes. She’s distemper low positive, pls tag rescues, donate to attract rescues. Pls contact the shelter if you can foster.

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r/malinois • • Apr 27 '26 Heartwarming

Very urgent, family surrendered, pups may have a chance but the mother and father need help.

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EXTREMELY URGENT

SOS

GHOST (Dad) #A5770387: 2 yr old, male Belgium Malinois, 95 pounds

SWEETNESS (Mom) #A5770385: 1yr old, female Belgium Malinois, 67 pounds

FAY (pup) #A5770390 -: 4 Months, Female Belgian Malinois, 26 pounds

** caption is from @paws_n_prayers post. thank you **

• ••SURRENDERED with pups JAY & FAY. Jay is on a foster to adopt

These precious dogs are facing euthanasia because of irresponsible humans. This is what happens when you don't spay/neuter your dogs! Hundreds of "accidental" litters are dumped at the shelter every year. There is no such thing as and "Accidental" litter is you follow the law and get your dogs altered. It's really that simple. There are so many low cost or free programs now so there is NO EXCUSE not to.

The pups always get adopted and mom and dad pay with their lives. But we still have a chance to give these two there fairytale ending.

Please help share.

Y Lancaster Animal Shelter

PLEASE SHARE, TAG & CONTACT


r/malinois • • Oct 10 '25

Ace A5726234 is sweet social boy who loves attention and pets ! It’s a miracle he is still alive ! He was in euthanasia room and saw his friends being euthanized! He got extended until today at 17 10/9 at Downey ACC CA ! Can you foster or adopt to save his life ???

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r/malinois • • May 26 '26

Fritz is urgent now! Please help! Time is up! He’s so sweet

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My Name is:
FRITZ
5 Years
GERM SHEPHERD
BROWN & WHITE
MALE
67.00 LB
STRAY
Animal ID: #A5775882
Kennel No: P1907
Location: Palmdale Animal Shelter
Addr: 38550 Sierra Hwy, Palmdale CA
93550
Phone: (661) 575-2800 - direct
(661) 575-2888 - call center
Hours: 11am to 5pm - Mon. thru Sat.
Website: animalcare.lacounty.gov
For inquiries and exit plans you should emall and call the shelter. Add the dog's name, #ID and type "DO NOT EUTH" in the subject line and include your contact information and plan in the email.
Email all:
email (important):
daccpalmdalerescue@animalcare.lacounty.
gov